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It seems like less people were dying when they were popping pills that came in packages with labels that told the user exactly what they were taking. The problem now appears to be people shooting smack from the street that really isn’t smack, and might be cut with Michael Jackson’s sleep medication.

The accusation is that he colluded with drug companies (whose products presumably don’t contain impurities) to allow their products into the street market.

Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I thought libertarians believed that people should be free to abuse opioids if they choose to do so. Now that there’s a chance to take a shot at Trump, some “libertarians” will hop on the bandwagon with their leftist pals like Chuck Schumer to spew the outrage.

The idea of the US having a czar of any sort should be repulsive to every American. The US is a republic, not a monarchy. If the propagandists want to use a shorthand historical title to accompany the “war on drugs” metaphor, it should refer to the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy as the Drug Obergruppenf?hrer.

They were that. You watch that movie and it is just one scene after another of some guy completely freaked out and totally unmanagable and the Angels beating said idiot with pool ques. Beating people is not okay but what the hell else were the Angels going to do? There were thousands of these idiots.

Can we stop reporting on what North Korea says as if any of it is new in any way? Report on new missile and nuke tests, sure, because those are new. However, nothing North Korea has said, or any official policy announcement they’ve made, since Trump became president is in any way different than what they’ve been saying for decades;

Trump’s characterization of Paddock as mentally ill may help the president feel better by providing a simplistic motive for the shooting, said Dr. David Spiegel, a Stanford University psychiatrist. But it is a poor response to a phenomenon that is actually quite easy to explain.

The reason Paddock could kill so many people in a 10-minute span is that he had ready access to the means to do so, Spiegel said. The real explanation, he said, lies with guns and a culture that puts “ridiculous firepower” in virtually anyone’s hands.

“There’s nothing sick about him,” Spiegel said of Paddock. “As a psychiatrist, I deeply resent the inference that anybody who does something like this is mentally ill. It’s untrue and deeply unfair to people with mental illness.”

Andrey Vyshinsky was the ideal progressive prosecutor, but I don’t think that he’s quite the model that the NYT has in mind.

Instead, I think that their ideal progressive prosecutor will convict and imprison felons in a manner analogous to the way a progressive college administrator approves applications for college admittance.

Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews.

Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.

They also obtained an eyewitness account – backed by documents – indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.

Rather than bring immediate charges in 2010, however, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continued investigating the matter for nearly four more years, essentially leaving the American public and Congress in the dark about Russian nuclear corruption on U.S. soil during a period when the Obama administration made two major decisions benefitting Putin’s commercial nuclear ambitions.

The investigation was ultimately supervised by then-U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, an Obama appointee who now serves as President Trump’s deputy attorney general, and then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe, now the deputy FBI director under Trump, Justice Department documents show.

Both men now play a key role in the current investigation into possible, but still unproven collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign during the 2016 election. McCabe is under congressional and Justice Department inspector general investigation in connection with money his wife’s Virginia state Senate campaign accepted in 2015 from now-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe at a time when McAuliffe was reportedly under investigation by the FBI.

It’s obvious that this was nothing other than a ‘Trump is a big poopyhead’ effort, and Brown claim the high road in vetoing it. Which might be more believable if HE hadn’t consistently denied access to his tax returns forever.

I’m going to pick unions – even as most of the work for these projects is funnelled to private contractors, they are just as unionized up their eyeballs. But FFS… when our unions are out-grafting unions in France, you know it’s gotten completely out of control.

I’ve read that early unions in America tended to focus more on money, while unions in Europe tended to focus more on leisure time. That’s why American unions now have crippling pension debts and hands all up in the kitty while European unions get the whole summer off.

That brain damage she suffered a while back is obviously permanent. The country sure made a good decision keeping the old witch who can’t walk or stand for more than 30 minutes without collapsing out of the White House.